Trump administration will require nursing homes to report Covid-19 cases – POLITICO

As we reopen the United States, our surveillance effort around the Covid virus will also begin in nursing homes," Verma said. "This will support CDC's efforts to have surveillance around the country and to support efforts around contact tracing" in communities where the virus spread began in long -term care facilities, she added.

A combined lack of preparedness, inadequate testing capacity over the past few months and early misunderstanding of how the virus could spread has seeded death in scores of nursing homes across the country, where patients are not only dying quickly, but often without family and loved ones at their side.

In New York, for example, more than 1,100 state nursing home and adult care facility residents have died from Covid-19 since the outbreak began more than a month ago. New data released by the Department of Health found that at least 1,135 people died at nursing home and adult care facilities as of Wednesday, mostly in New York City. That's about 9 percent of the state's death toll so far.

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